Android WearOs — Kotlin & Jetpack Compose UI : Round Text, Curved Text, Curved Layout | by Fabio Chiarani | Dec, 2023
Unlock the potential of these advanced techniques to elevate your smartwatch app design and functionality to new heights. If you’re developing an application for WearOs you’ve surely come across the Scaffold showing the TimeText(): WearOs Time in scaffold Well, then in that case the guide…
Synchronous and Asynchronous runs: run, runCatching, runBlocking and runInterruptible in Kotlin | by First I have fika, then I write apps. | Dec, 2023
Photo by oğuz can on Unsplash Recently, I watched a video about runBlocking. It’s a good explanation of runBlocking behavior. In summary, runBlocking documentation highlights several key limitations and recommendations: This video effectively covered these points. In this post, however, I aim to dive deeper….
Mastering Lazy Lists in Jetpack Compose with Data Classes and MVI | by Clinton Teegarden | Dec, 2023
This post explores how to structure and utilize data classes to build clean and efficient Lazy List composables within an MVI (Model-View-Intent) pattern. Lazy Lists in Jetpack Compose offer a powerful tool for displaying large datasets efficiently. They resemble RecyclerViews in the legacy Android view…
Mastering Android Dynamic Feature Module Delivery | by Hasan Abdullah | Dec, 2023
We know that, on average, 80% of users use only 20% of the features in an application. Suppose you have an application with 30 features (20 MB), and all of your features are in the app module. So, every user will download a 20 MB…
Android Proto DataStore – Should You Use It? | by tomerpacific | Dec, 2023
The How To get started, there is a need to add the following dependencies to your application level build.gradle: implementation “androidx.datastore:datastore-preferences:1.0.0″implementation “com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javalite:3.18.0” Then, you will need to create a proto directory inside your project. This directory needs to be a sibling of the java folder…
Free hand draw polygon in Google Maps Compose. Part 2 | by Rasul Aghakishiyev | Dec, 2023
In the previous part we learned how to draw in Jetpack Compose using Canvas API. If you didn’t read it yet, here is the link Today we will learn how select area in google maps using free hand drawn polygon. First of all we need…
Integrating Google Sign-In into Kotlin Multiplatform | by Mirzamehdi Karimov | Dec, 2023
Firstly, you need to set up OAuth 2.0 in Google Cloud Platform Console. For steps you can follow this link. Pro Easy Tip: If you use Firebase and enable Google Sign-In authentication in Firebase it will automatically generate OAuth client IDs for each platform, and…
Kotlin under the hood: how to get rid of recursion | by Max Sidorov | Dec, 2023
I recently read an article about optimizing tail recursion in kotlin through the tailrec keyword. I was curious how this is implemented under the hood and decided to do a little experiment. Tail recursion is a special case of recursion in which the recursive call…
Improve Your Android App Performance, Explore JetpackCompose, Animating with JetpackCompose… | by PAD Editorial | Dec, 2023
Improve Your Android App Performance, Explore JetpackCompose, Animating with JetpackCompose, Implementing Release Train Jaewoong Eum gives a comprehensive overview of Baseline Profiles, explores how Baseline Profiles work beneath the surface with the Dex optimizer, and more. Nirbhay Pherwani goes beyond the surface level, exploring those…
Effect Handlers in Jetpack Compose: A Complete Guide | by Sagar Malhotra | Dec, 2023
Effect Handlers: as the name suggests, they are used to handle the “side”-effects in Jetpack-Compose but what exactly is a side-effect? According to docs: A side-effect is a change to the state of the app that happens outside the scope of a composable function. This…